A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is prefixed an introduction to his New guide to health, or Botanic family physician; containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison, ect. [sic].

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1832
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is prefixed an introduction to his New guide to health, or Botanic family physician; containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison, ect. [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/408 (page 8)
    faculty, let him show ever so much ingenuity in his dis- coveries, or be ever so successful in curing disease, he is hunted down like a wild beast; and a hue and cry raised again.st him from one end of the country to the other. There must be some reason for all this, more than an aim to the public good; for the people are certainly capable of judging for themselves, whether what is done for them, removes their complaint, or in- creases it. It is not unreasonable, we think, to con- clude, that it arises from a fear that the craft is in danger. Nothing could more fully exemplify the above opinion than the treatment which Dr. Thomson has received from the medical faculty, during the whole of his prac- tice. He has been persecuted and pursued with all the malice of demons, lor no other cause that can be im- agined, than because of his extraordinary success in curing disease, which has tended to enlighten the peo- ple, and do away their blind confidence in the infallibil- ity of doctors. This opposition has not been from the people at large, for all who have been attended by him, and those who have had a correct knowledge ef his sys- tem of practice, are not only well satisfied, but are tho- roughly convinced of its superiority over the practice of the doctors; and some of the faculty who have examined the subject, allow the discovery to be original and inge- nious, and that the principles upon which it is founded, are correct. If the physicians generally had, instead of trying to destroy him and his piactice, inquired into and made themselves acquainted with his improvements, and treated him with that courtesy due to every ingenious man, who devotes himself to the advancement of the arts and sciences, they would have received much useful in- formation on one of the most important branches of the medical art, that is, of the medicinal virtues of the vege- tables of this country, with the best method of preparing and administering them to cure disease; but they seem to consider every thing relating to the subject as a soi-t of holy ground, on which no one has a right to tread, but the regularly initiated. Dr. Thomson began his practice as it were from ac- cident, with no other view than an honest endeavor to